Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East for 32 years, from 1987 to 2019. He was the British Parliament's longest-serving British Asian MP.
Official portrait, 2017
Vaz in 2008
Vaz in 2016
1987 United Kingdom general election
The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons. The election was the third consecutive general election victory for the Conservative Party, who won a majority of 102 seats and second landslide under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, who became the first Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool in 1820 to lead a party into three successive electoral victories.
Image: Margaret Thatcher in Israel (cropped)
Image: Start campagne voor Europese verkiezingen van Pvd A (Rotterdam) Neal Kinnoch , k, Bestanddeelnr 932 9811
Image: David Steel 1987 cropped
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